The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-30
News of the Week.

John Taylor, President of the Mormon
Church, died in Salt Lake City on Mondal
evening
William J. Basket, wealthy farmer o.
Howard county, Mo-, died on Wednesday O
injuries received from a vicious bull on Friday
Brigader General William Mckee Dunn
retired, died Sunday morning at his residence
in Fairfax county, Virginia, in the I'D yeal
of his age.
While hurrying to see the burning of her
sons barns near Smithville, New York, on
Saturday, Mrs. Helen Wheeler, aged 81
years, fell dead of excitement and heart
disease.
Three-iourlhs of the coke strikers in the
| Connellsville region were back at work on
Saturday. The men go back as individuals,
the operators refusing to recognize the labor
organizations.
Reuben Coles, colored, who committed a
criminal assault on Mrs. Savadge, a respect
able white lady of Surry county, Va, was
taken from Jail by body of masked men and
hung on Tuesday
A tornado passed through the woods in
Cheyboygan and Presque Isle counties,
Michigan, last week, which did great damage
to timber. On one forty-acre tract not a tree
was left standing.
A fire in the chinatown portion of Los
Angeles, California, on Sunday morning, de-
stroyed % buildings, causing loss estimated
at 500, 900. The burned buildings had been
inhabited by about thousand Cinnamon.
Nearly half million immigrants, to be
exact 4SS, ZIG, entered the United States
through the six principal ports during the fs-
Britain and Ireland furnished the largest
number, Germany coming second, and Swe-
den and Norway third.
Some unknown scoundrels on Monday night
entered the weaver room of the Manville
Company's cotton mill, at Manville, Rhode
Island, and, by running a knife along the
tops OF the rolls, ruined five thousand yards
of fancy goods on the looms. The mill was
recently the scene of weavers strike.
Germania Assembly, No. 1898, of the
knights of Labor, of Wilmington, Delaware,
disbanded last week because of the order
prohibiting the use of intoxicating beverages
at picnics and entertainments. The assem-.
bly, numbered at one time about 81 members,
but since the issuance of that order had
fallen off to 49,
Giles Smith, of DeerGeld, lost three cows
last Wednesday by bloody murrain. He had
them buried near running stream, which
infected the water. Three cows belonging to
William Budlong, Jr., neighbor, died of
the disease. Budlong and John Raymen.
while looking for the cause, were stung by
and are now seriously i'll, having
been inoculated with the murrain virus.
Frederick X. Dorne, IS years of age, was
arrested in Chicago, on Sunday, for robbery
at Saratoga, New York. 1t ap-
pears that Dorne was one of the attendants
who drew water from the Congress spring,
n nd hat n . |
ga took great fancy to him. On the 2Sth of
June, while they were walking in a secluded
spot, Dorne chloroformed the woman, and
robbed her of jewelry and Cash aggregating
$1,000, and then fed
- steamer City of Rio de Janerio has ar.
we'd at San 7 FRANCISCO W. III news from Hong |
ong to July LIST, ana re Yokohama to July 9th. |
y the loss Of the steamer Sir JouAp Lawrence,
the Bay of Bengal, before reported, eSGht |
nndred lives were lost, mostly females, of
,e best families in Bengal, on n pilgrimage
Juggernaut. From the 21st to the 2Sth OF ,
lay a cyclone ragged in the Bay of Bengal
it'll disastrous results to shipping, and attend
] with great loss of life. ;
While Governor Seay, of Alabama, and his
rivate secretary were riding down the main
rect in Montgomery, ON Monday afternoon,
ne of the guy wires which supported the
verhead cable of the electric street railway
roke and fell TO the ground, striking the
Governors horse. The wire was heavily
harged with electricity and the horse becom-
,g entangled was shocked and burned to
cath in a few minutes. A second later the
ire would have struck the Governor and his
ecretary instead of the horse.
Mrs. Joseph Bennett, a wealthy lady of
Wichita, Kansas, was stabbed, and it is be-
eved, MORALLY wounded, by her step-dangh-
II i
Tho is Benefits daughter by his first wife,
rent to Wichita from Hot Springs, Arkansas,
nd was refused admission to her step-moth-
RS house. On Monday evening, accompan-
ed by young man, the girl drove to the
ouse, and, upon Mrs. Bennett coming TO the
oor, drew a knife and stabbed her twenty
imes in the breast, face and arms.